[ale] When I was young

[Pete Hardie]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 21:44, Tom Freeman <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:
>
> I have a cousin who was active on uunet about 1980. The only thing
> I remember about that was that the addresses got seriously _ugly_.
>

Oh, yeah - bang paths FTW!

>
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Chris Fowler wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 16:23 -0400, Chuck Payne wrote:
>>> Hmmm, I thought the e-mail was when I was young.
>>
>> We had email.  If you would call it that.  Problem was it was slow.  I
>> would send you an email today and you would receive it tomorrow.  You
>> would reply but I would receive it on Friday.  Just better to call you
>> on the phone.
>>
>> This was called fidonet :)
>>
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